Archive for January 15th, 2009

Rails session cookies not saved in IE 6/7 ?

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

I spent half an hour surfing the net for an answer and luckily found this page: Problems with IE7 Sessions Not Saved in Rails or PHP

So basically if session cookies (or any cookies for that matter) work just fine on Safari/Firefox, but just get silently ignored on Internet Explorer - please check if there are any underscores in sub-domain you are accessing.

For example, I was using domain called 'amtes_shop.local' for my Rails application, and I could never "shop" for anything because cart was using sessions, and sessions were silently ignored by IE 6/7 (so I was in the latest stage of development when one tests everything on broken browsers ;) Renamed amtes_shop.local to amtesshop.local - and everything magically fixed itself! Bingo!

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